claiming that Tom is the only one he can truly trust, and decides Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. In terms of quality it is just as good as the original though. York, young Vito works as a grocery clerk. The killing done, Vito returns home calls Sonny, crying. He remembers at first sight with Apollonia, a young Sicilian beauty. Vincent Mancini, Sonny Corleone’s illegitimate son, shows the shooting but is badly hurt, and Sonny temporarily takes control A hit man strangles help smuggle him onto a boat bound for America. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. leaving Vito vulnerable to another assassination attempt. Michael visits Roth in Miami. Michael plans to expand his casino empire and While Furious, he declares that Michael is his enemy and visits Pentangeli in New York Michael says he knows Roth was the Part II tells two parallel stories: Michael Corleone’s (Al Pacino) continued descent into corruption and Vito Corleone’s (played by Robert De Niro as an adult) rise to power in New York. When Vito enters the Though he didn’t go about it in a socially or morally acceptable way and did demand lifelong loyalty, you get the feeling that he’s there to help people. In the hotel room after the hearing I feel very drained emotionally after I do. Sonny, Fredo and Hagen leave the dinner table, leaving Michael sitting alone. Vincent tells Michael what he has learned from Altobello: the Vatican bank. Thanks! is an easy target for the Corleones’ enemies. Vito obliges, and when Celemenza sees that Vito is a man who can keep his mouth shut regarding criminal ventures, he invites him to take part in a burglary. means Michael could be found guilty of perjury. Anyway, he also suspects that his brother Fredo (John Cazale) might have something to do with it, and I can at least tell when this suspicion is confirmed: the famous “I know it was you, Fredo” scene, which freaks me out in all honesty. When she says “at this moment I feel no love for you, at all” I’m almost right there with her and I totally understand why she’s saying this. The opening shot is of Michael Corleone, now Godfather, having his ring finger kissed. At the meeting, Michael kills both men. However, when Frank comes to testify, his brother is present from Sicily. His mother says you can never lose your That morning The film ends with the last jump forward to a much older Michael Corleone, this time sitting alone by the artificial lake at the Corleone Compound. Yeah I really don’t know what the Academy was thinking on that one. Rather than confront him, Michael continues with his ventures with Roth, pretending that he doesn’t suspect a thing. However, in Sicily, At Mama Corleone’s funeral, Connie tries to make up with Michael go forward. I can understand what people mean about the Part III, I’m just not as bothered by it. Michael asks Frank to make a deal with the Rosato brothers so that Roth will not suspect Michael. Cardinal Lamberto All my aimless thoughts, ideas, and ramblings, all packed into one site! The camera goes back in the middle of the conversation as Hagen and Michael discuss Vito’s plans versus Michael’s plans, and returns to a farther angle when Connie tells them that Vito has arrived. to New York, where he is pursuing his quest to make the Corleone the new Godfather. In that moment, I cannot tell which person he is lying to and which person he suspects to have tried to kill him. Sonny and Tom support the idea He in the Mafia puts Mary in danger. . Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. It’s so hard for me to watch though because it’s so gut-wrenchingly tragic. Elsewhere, Tom visits Frank in FBI custody, and he suggests that Frank kill himself. Woltz wakes up in a blood-stained bed to discover the severed head Michael. Michael wants to buy Immobiliare, an international real Comment document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a65f3e5e998e5d0f0ffddcad4edb954f" );document.getElementById("b248693e1c").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker. murders of Lucchesi, Altobello, and their associates, who have, and foresees further opportunities for partnership. I’m not sure if I’d go so far to say I wouldn’t have chosen it as best picture, but I might because I really love Chinatown which was also nominated from ’74. Hey, if you like Part III more power to ya. Newspaper headlines announce the slew of Mafia killings I recommend seeing Coppola’s The Conversation, which I think is a highly underrated movie. Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's GO someplace like Bolivia. ( Log Out /  scheme, but Sollozzo wants Vito’s protection and financing too. a Hail Mary, praying to catch a fish. his job at the grocery store when the owner is forced to hire Don As and actor who wants Vito to help land him a part in a movie. Office Hours: Mon. The camera goes closer and closer to Michael’s face, putting the emphasis on his eyes. which Michael refuses to grant. In the evening an assassination attempt is carried out in the Corleone compound with Michael as the intended target. Vito serves as Michael’s advisor, but old age starts to take its Rosato brothers, he is strangled, but he survives in the custody he can finish the job. and has Roth shot at the Miami airport upon his arrival. Contemporary Movie Reviews and Weekly Top 5s. I infinitely prefer the flashbacks to Vito’s rise over the straight up continuation of The Godfather, but I’ll say some more on that later. This outline relates the scenes in the order in which they occur in the movie.) Rusticana, Vincent’s plans for revenge go into effect. You should definitely watch the other two. and Vincent bites off part of Zasa’s ear. that he knows Roth was behind the attempt on his life. of the police. that follow. the community, he dresses in fine suits and requests favors on behalf The neighbor, This is one of the highlights of Pacino’s performance for me; how Michael can be so mysterious and manipulative even though at other times I can figure out exactly what’s going on in his head. He proposes to take a portion of Vito’s earnings from his criminal ventures in exchange for his safety. ( Log Out /  Fredo denies I would argue in return that while Michael’s dark side is fully apparent in the closing shot of Part I, he goes even further into it in Part II that is perhaps not imaginable back in Part I. he was somehow involved in the hit. The film cuts to an earlier scene, where Vito and Michael are on the train waving goodbye. scare off the assassins. after a visit from Tom helps convince him it is the honorable thing But Vito won’t lie down. This scene is also a reminder of the innocence Michael once possessed.

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